I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it.

Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.

It doesn't behoove elderly persons to follow fashion in their thinking nor in the way they dress.

Man is a simple being, and however rich, varied, and unfathomable he may be, the cycle of his situations is soon run through.

Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.

Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.